Verition Fund Management has added at least 11 portfolio managers in the last three months from institutions including Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

UMB Fund Services has poached Timothy Bonin from BMO Global Asset Management to become the company’s new director of fund operations, according to a report by Asset Servicing Times. Bonin, who served as vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of BMO Funds for more than 16 years, has over 25 years’ experience in all in financial services, with prevision roles covering the investment advisory, open-end mutual fund, closed-end mutual fund, exchange-traded funds, and hedge fund industries. Bonin also held the role of financial services senior manager at PwC from 1993 to 2006.  

Akin Gump has appointed William V de Cordova as senior regulatory counsel based in the firm’s office in New York. De Cordova advises hedge and private equity fund managers, registered investment advisers, commodity pool operators, trading advisors, broker-dealers and others on regulatory, compliance and operational matters.

Rokos Capital Management is the latest big macro hedge fund to expand into commodities with the appointment of Luke Sadrian, a former portfolio manager at Moore Capital Management, as an investment officer, according to a report by Bloomberg. 

Backstop Solutions Group, a cloud-based productivity suite for the institutional investment community, has appointed Tom Griffiths as the firm’s first Chief Revenue Officer.  In this role, Griffiths will be responsible for leading the firm’s global client-facing teams as they initiate their next phase of growth. Griffiths previously served as Global Head of Sales at Elliptic, a specialist in cryptoasset risk and compliance solutions. Prior to Elliptic, he spent 21 years at FactSet, a leading provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications. Over his tenure, he held several senior leadership positions, most recently as SVP of the Asia Pacific business,

IS Prime, part of the ISAM Capital Markets Group, has added to its Agency Execution team with the appointment of Sandeep Nanuwan who will focus on institutional sales, catering to banks, hedge funds, and asset managers, according to a report by Finance Feeds. Nanuwan joins from NatWest Markets, where he spent over three years in FX Prime Brokerage in client services. He has also previously held operational roles at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, predominantly in London but also with secondments in Hong Kong and India. IS Prime’s Agency Execution solutions provides mid-tier and smaller banks, hedge funds, asset managers,

Opus Fund Services, a multi award winning, independent provider of global fund administration services, has appointed industry veteran Robert Ansell as director, business development. Ansell brings with him nearly three decades of experience in global financial markets.

Options Technology, a provider of IT infrastructure to global capital markets firms, has appointed Christy O’Kane as SVP, Global Head of Delivery. O’Kane joined Options as part of the Graduate and Placement Programme intake in March 2016. He started his career as a Technical Support Engineer, supporting Options clients in the UK, US, and APAC regions. Previously O’Kane held a Project Management role, where he worked with clients, engineers, and account managers to enhance the effectiveness of day-to-day operations across Options’ Managed Platform, Managed Applications, and Managed Colocation business lines.